The Turkish education system has approximately 62,000 schools educating 17.2 million students. It has two main parts: formal education and non-formal education. Formal education includes pre-primary, primary, lower secondary, upper secondary, and higher education. Primary education is for ages 6-11 and is compulsory, as is lower secondary from ages 11-14. Secondary education includes both compulsory and optional high school programs. Higher education consists of 173 universities where students apply based on exam scores. The goal at all levels is to provide students with skills and knowledge to be productive citizens.

1. TURKISH
EDUCATION
SYSTEM

2. General Information about Turkish Education
System
Official Language: Turkish
Alphabet: Latin Alphabet
Academic Year: September through June
Duration of Schooling: 4+ 4 + 4
Compulsory Schooling: 12 years (ages 6-17)

3. General Information about Turkish
Education System
Number of Schools About 62.000
Number of Students (formal Education) 17.2 Million
Number of Teachers 832.000

5. Turkish National Education System has two
main parts:
Formal Education
Non-formal Education

6. Formal Education
Formal education includes:
 pre-primary
 primary school
lower secondary school,
upper secondary
higher education institutions(Universities)

7. Pre-Primary Schools
involves the education of children in the age
group of 3 to 5 who have not reached the age
of compulsory primary education
They are optional
Their objective is to ensure that children develop
physically, mentally and emotionally and ready
for Primary Education

8. Primary education

9. Primary Schools
primary school age group is 6 to 9.
It’s compulsory.
Primary Education is free all state schools.
Foreign Language lessons will start at 2nd grade
with new law (Previously it was at 4th grade)
Students have 3 hours of English lesson in a week

10. Primary Schools
The purpose of primary education is to ensure that
every child :
acquires the basic knowledge, skills, behaviors, and
habits to become a good citizen,
is raised in line with the national moral concepts and
is prepared for life and for the next education level
parallel to his/her interests and skills.

11. Lower Secondary Schools

12. Lower Secondary Schools(Elementary)
Lower Secondary school age group is 10 to 13.
It’s compulsory.
Lower Secondary Education is free all state
schools.
Students have 4 hours of English lesson in a week

13. Secondary Education

14. Secondary Schools (High Schools)
Secondary Schools age group is 14-19
With a new Law in 2012, four years of Secondary
school is also compulsory today.
Secondary Education is free all state schools.
Students have to take two general exams shortly
called YGS-LYS to enroll a University.
Every year about 2 million students attend these
exams and 630,000 students get a chance to
enroll any faculty, four or two-year college
according to their points. So this exam is very
important for every student.

15. Secondary Education
There are 5 main types of high-schools in Turkey.
Public High-Schools
Anatolian High-Schools
Science High-Schools
Vocational High-Schools
Military High Schools

16. Our School is…
A Public High School.
4-year-education
Minimum number of lessons in a week 30.
Maximum number of students in a class is 30
We have 3 hours of English lesson at 9th grade
and 2 hours at other grades

17. Main Lessons at High School
Maths
Physics
Chemistry
Geometry
Biology
Turkish Language and Literature
History
Geography
Foreign Language (English)

18. Secondary Schools
The purpose of secondary education is:
 to give students a minimum
common culture,
 to identify individual and
social problems,
 to search for solutions,
 and to prepare the students for
higher education, for profession, for life
and for business in line with their interests
and skills.

19. Higher Education (Universities)
University Education is mostly 4 years
But, Faculty of Medicine is 6 years
Vocational Education is 2 years
Students apply Universities with their YGS-LYS Exam
Grades (University Entrance Exams)
University number in Turkey: 173
State University number: 107
Foundation (Private) University number: 66

20. Most Popular 5 Departments at
Universities
1. Faculty of Law
2. Faculty of Medicine
3.Preschool Teaching
4.Faculty of Engineering
5. Psychological counseling and guidance

21. University Education
Faculty of Education is very popular.Many
students want to be teacher.
At the end of University education, students
should enter another exam called KPSS to work
for government.
Government give scholarship for thousands of
students who have economic difficulties.

22. University Education
Main Aims :
1. Train students according to our country’s
science policies and the need for labor in higher
and various levels of the society
2. Providing scientific training at various levels,
3. Doing research exploring sciences in further
detail in order to finding solutions to scientific,
technical and cultural problems especially to
ones related to our country

23. FACTS about Turkish Education System
Compulsory education starts at the age of 6.
A lesson duration is 40 or 45 minutes.
Course books are given for free for every
student.
Every student will have a tablet pc and each
classroom have a smart board in a few years
with Fatih Project
School Uniform is compulsory until the end of
high school but with new regulation it won’t be
compulsory next year.

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